One could note that, since this man was arrested and so far none of the folks named in the Epstein files have been, they consider speaking for a few seconds past the allotted time to be a worse crime than sexually abusing children for decades.

It’s wrecked.

I don’t know, I think it sounds lovely. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Yeah… “We can’t undo all of the unprecedented shit the previous admin did because it would set a precedent for future admins” is just about the stupidest argument I can think of. Tear it all down and start from scratch, clearly what we have isn’t working.

I learned about it from a story I heard of someone who traveled from the US to Thailand, saw it on the menu at a restaurant and ordered it, expecting it to be the sort of fried rice you’d get in the US at an Asian restaurant. They were unpleasantly surprised.

Notably, Americans are not the only culture that does this.

There’s a Thai dish called ‘American Fried Rice’ for instance.

American fried rice is a Thai fried rice dish with “American” side ingredients like fried chicken, ham, sausages, raisins, and ketchup.[1] Other ingredients like pineapples and croutons are optional.

At least in any part of America I’ve been to, this is certainly not something you can get here.

It’s fucking embarrassing, honestly. I hope whomever is president next reverses all of the BS executive orders. Like, day 1. You could argue that there’s far more important things to be doing than changing the Gulf of Mexico back to being the Gulf of Mexico, and you’d be right, but doing it on day 1 (along with everything else - just write one executive order that undoes every EO from the prior admin) sends the (important) message that there was nothing of value done by the prior admin, and the legitimacy of the administration is not even being entertained for a moment.

The newer monster hunter games try to explain it away as functionally conservation efforts, telling you that the ones you’re killing are throwing off the local ecosystem, but it falls pretty flat when they also pit captured ‘research specimens’ against you in the arena they built explicitly for that purpose…

Hey, none of that. Around here, all content is valuable, low-effort and shitty or not. As long as it was posted by a human; fuck AI.

That’s cool. I hate that we have to vet every piece of media through the ‘is this AI?’ lens now, but glad to hear it’s legitimate.

The colors in the key don’t even match the colors in the graph, is this just AI generated garbage or do you have actual sources to go with it?

Can’t speak from personal experience but from what I’ve heard, it’s more about the concept / theme / emotions than the actual act itself. People (at least, the vast majority) who are into it don’t actually want to experience it in real life; just like with many other more mundane fetishes, it’s more about the fantasy and how it makes you feel to imagine yourself in that situation, and more nebulous concepts like the idea of becoming a physical part of another creature, or the imagined feeling of closeness, constriction, warmth, safety or comfort from being inside something’s stomach. Obviously not things you’d experience if it actually happened to you, but that’s not the point.

I’m not super familiar with the exact specifics, but my loose understanding is that if it’s ‘soft’, the subject survives relatively unharmed. If they die in the process, it’s ‘hard’, whether that’s due to being chewed, asphyxiated, or dissolved (or anything else). (There’s a subcategory called ‘disposal’ which is… exactly what you think it is, following that digestion.)

I hate that I feel the need to mention this, but…

“Vore” doesn’t necessarily imply ‘torn to shreds’; it could be as simple as being swallowed whole. It comes in ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ varieties, with the former being non-destructive, and the latter being… well, what you thought.

I rarely feel as stupid as when reading anything about quantum computing. The whole field could just be a giant in-joke where none of it exists and they’re all just spouting nonsense technical jargon to confound the plebs, and I’d be oblivious.

I don’t have the PDF you’re looking for, but wanted to shout out to an apparent fan of kobolds, anyway. Cheers!

There’s obviously a group of very small people trapped inside a hamster wheel style contraption. As the fan structure heats up, the floor of the wheel grows uncomfortably hot, and forces the little people to continuously run to avoid getting burned (continually cycling the cooler top of the wheel down to the bottom). This in turn turns the fan blades.

I am honestly appalled that you would buy such a thing; it’s cruel.

The word ‘terrorist’ has lost all meaning at this point.

I would even go a step further and say that cops’ testimony should not even be accepted if they don’t have bodycam footage to back it up. When you have a camera that’s able to verify anything you need it to, the absence of that verification should be viewed through the lens that you specifically did not want whatever was happening during that time to be recorded.

Gary was 100% the best character in the movie, just wish he’d gotten more screen time. They managed to fit as much body language and expressiveness into his face as into entire other characters.